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• Brain wave tests prove that when we use positive words, our "feel good" hormones flow. Positive self-talk releases endorphins and serotonin in our brain, which then flow throughout our body, making us feel good. These neurotransmitters stop flowing when we use negative words.

  Ruth Fishel

  Positive Words, Negative Words, Self

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• As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.

  Wally Lamb

  Drawing, Lions, Humans

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• I'm still walking around New York like a tourist staring up at all the skyscrapers. I wave at people, I shake hands, I help ladies with strollers.

  Jack McBrayer

  New York, Hands, People

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• Living in Sydney, I've taken the chance to start surfing again. One of my best memories of growing up is catching my first proper wave and surfing across it and my brother cheering at me from the shore.

  Markus Zusak

  Brother, Cheer, Growing Up

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• Our industry is going through quite a wave of innovation and it's being powered by a phenomenon which is referred to as the cloud.

  Steve Ballmer

  Clouds, Innovation, Phenomenon

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• All over India, all over the world, as the sun or the shadow of darkness moves from east to west, the call to prayer moves with it, and people kneel down in a wave to pray to God. Five waves each day - one for each namaaz - ripple across the globe from longitude to longitude. The component elements change direction, like iron filings near a magnet - towards the house of God in Mecca.

  Vikram Seth

  Prayer, Moving, Iron

  Vikram Seth (1993). “A Suitable Boy”, p.117, Penguin Books India

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• The Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of Goodness and Love.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Heart, Down And, And Love

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekananda on Himself”, p.107, Advaita Ashrama

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• Waves, sky, trees, Essrog - I was off the page now, away from the grammar of skyscrapers and pavement.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Sky, Tree, Pages

  Jonathan Lethem (2014). “Motherless Brooklyn”, p.208, Faber & Faber

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• Yes, it's true - I love the roar of the crowd. When the fans are with you, their voices come together in a big booming rush of sound that you can actually feel in your body - almost like a wave that lifts you and carries you past your own limits.

  Dwyane Wade

  Past, Voice, Together

  Dwyane Wade (2012). “A Father First: How My Life Became Bigger Than Basketball”, p.23, Harper Collins

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• The reality is I'm kind of like an ocean. Everything is calm, calm, calm. I'm good. When the ball goes up in the air, the waves start rocking.

  J. R. Smith

  Ocean, Reality, Air

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• In the speech sound wave, one word runs into the next seamlessly; there are no little silences between spoken words the way there are white spaces between written words. We simply hallucinate word boundaries when we reach the end of a stretch of sound that matches some entry in our mental dictionary.

  Steven Pinker

  Running, White, Space

  Steven Pinker (2003). “The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language”, p.171, Penguin UK

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• For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far back, through creeks and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main. And not by eastern windows only, When daylight comes, comes in the light; In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly! But westward, look, the land is bright!

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Tired, Light, Land

  "Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth" l. 15 (1855)

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• At first, when a child meets something that scares him, the fear grows, like a wave. But when he goes into the water and swims - gets used to the water - the wave grows small. If we pull the child away when the wave is high, he never sees that, never learns how to swim and remains afraid. If he gets a chance to feel strong, in control, that's called coping. When he copes, he feels better.

  Jonathan Kellerman

  Strong, Children, Feel Better

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• I don't design clothes for the Queen, but for the people who wave at her as she goes by.

  Willi Smith

  Queens, Clothes, People

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• It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.

  Lucretius

  Struggle, Wind, Sea

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• What the members of the Church need, more than anything else, are strong testimonies of Jesus Christ and the gospel He restored. They need to know. And they need to know that they know. This is the best protection against the tsunami of temptations and the waves of immorality that crash against us. Perhaps this is just another reason why the first principle of the gospel is faith in the Lord Jesus Christ!

  John Bytheway

  Jesus, Strong, Temptation

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• I sometimes compare press officers to riflemen on the Somme -- mowing down wave upon wave of distortion, taking out rank upon rank of supposition, deduction and gossip.

  Bernard Ingham

  Media, Gossip, Mowing

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• The electroencephalogram represents a continuous curve with continuous oscillations in which... one can distinguish larger first order waves with an average duration of 90 milliseconds and smaller second order waves of an average duration of 35 milliseconds.

  Hans Berger

  Curves, Average, Order

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• My experience is that you can't possibly win against whatever the tidal wave is that's coming at you.

  Lorenzo di Bonaventura

  Winning, Tidal Waves

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 23, 2013.

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• I didn't want to break with my family. I wasn't about to make waves. But I had this feeling I wanted to do something that I liked to do. Acting's what I liked to do most. There must have been a moment when I felt, 'Oh, my God, I like this and what am I going to do about it?

  Charles Kimbrough

  Feelings, Acting, Want

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• I'm a daughter of the middle class with a strong sense of social mobility and individualism, like the waves of immigrants, like my Spanish grandparents, who made Argentina.

  Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner

  Daughter, Strong, Class

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• What attracts me are free and sensual curves. The curves we find in mountains, in the waves of the sea, in the body of the woman we love.

  Oscar Niemeyer

  Curves, Sea, Sensual

  "Oscar Niemeyer, architect of Brazil's capital, dies aged 104" by Jonathan Watts, www.theguardian.com. December 5, 2012.

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• Well, very long ago, on the spot where the Wild Wood waves now, before ever it had planted itself and grown up to what it now is, there was a city - a city of people, you know. Here, where we are standing, they lived, and walked, and talked, and slept, and carried on their business. Here they stabled their horses and feasted, from here they rode out to fight or drove out to trade. They were a powerful people, and rich, and great builders. They built to last, for they thought their city would last for ever.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Horse, Powerful, Fighting

  J. M. Barrie, Charles Dickens, Johanna Spyri, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum (2015). “Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…”, p.2494, e-artnow

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• Once there was Louis Armstrong blowing his beautiful top in the muds of New Orleans; before him the mad musicians who had paraded on official days and broke up their Sousa marches into ragtime. Then there was swing, and Roy Eldridge, vigorous and virile, blasting the horn for everything it had in waves of power and logic and subtlety - leaning into it with glittering eyes and a lovely smile and sending it out broadcast to rock the jazz world.

  Jack Kerouac

  Beautiful, Eye, New Orleans

  Jack Kerouac (1976). “On the Road”, p.241, Penguin

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• Tell me, how can I live without my Husband any longer? This is my first awakening thought each morning, and as I watch the waves of the turbulent lake under our windows I sometimes feel I should like to go under them.

  Mary Todd Lincoln

  Morning, Husband, Lakes

  Justin G. Turner, Linda Levitt Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln (1972). “Mary Todd Lincoln: her life and letters”, Random House Inc

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